Notion is great at pages. It's just not a project manager. Gript ships eight board views, real automations, native time tracking and invoicing, and notebooks for when a doc is the right tool.
Every view on every plan. Switch with one click on any board.
Notion has database views. They require setup per project, have no dependencies, and don't fire automations on recurring pages.
Notion's May 2025 change bundled AI into all paid plans and raised the Business tier price. If you use Notion for project management and weren't using AI, your bill went up. Gript takes the opposite approach: its AI runs on your own provider key, so you only pay the provider directly, with no bundled AI markup on your seats.
Source: Notion changelog and published pricing, May 2025.
The pieces you end up wiring together when you try to run real projects in Notion. Gantt with dependencies, time tracking, invoicing, approvals, dashboards, automations that fire on recurring tasks. All here.
Ranked by what real Notion users hit the wall on. Each one ships in Gript on the Business plan.
Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, Timesheet, Workload, Zen. Switch with one click on any board. Save layouts per person or per team. Filters and groupings travel with the view.
Pick the pattern. Pick after completion or on schedule. Pick how sub-items behave. Recurring items show up on time, with the right status, and they fire every automation you wired to them.
Start a timer on any item. Mark hours billable. Tag client, category, retainer. Filter billable time by date and client. Draft an invoice, send a PDF. P&L and portfolio financials roll up. No bolt-on, no second login.
Cross-board automation hub with retry, dead-letter queue, idempotency, and bulk enable-disable. Filter by trigger, action, status, creator. See per-automation success and failure counts. No 100-per-database ceiling.
Total tasks, completion rate, status breakdown, priority distribution, team workload, recent activity, goal tracker. Click any widget to drill into the items. Date filters survive the click. No data export to a second tool to see a chart.
Notion is loved by the 5 percent who enjoy building their own tools. The other 95 percent wrote these.
Their customer, on Trustpilot
Great product but extremely hard to use.★★☆☆☆ mike, 26 June 2026 · Trustpilot
How Gript works
Work Management for the 95%. If your team needs a tutorial to add a task, we designed it wrong. Nothing to assemble, no template to buy, no database to build first.
Their customer, on Trustpilot
But this is exactly where the trap snaps shut: every move, every reminder, every single action by these agents costs tokens.★☆☆☆☆ Silvareno, 8 June 2026 · Trustpilot
How Gript works
We do not resell tokens. Bring your own key and pay the provider directly at provider prices. No credit packs, no meter running in the corner of the screen.
Their customer, on Trustpilot
Despite the account being deleted, Notion continued retrying the payment and eventually charged me R474.16 on 31 July.★☆☆☆☆ Magnus Francke, 4 August 2026 · Trustpilot
How Gript works
Cancel any time and the billing stops. Read only mode, a full 30 days to export everything, and only then is it deleted. That is the entire policy.
Score and quotes read from the public Trustpilot page for Notion on 3 September 2026. We quote and link, we never screenshot. Read the reviews yourself
The pieces Notion users wire together with custom databases, formulas, and integrations. Built into Gript.
Send a secure link to a client or freelancer. They update the items you choose, no login, no seat. You see the changes live.
Share a real-time themed board with a client. They see updates the second you make them. No login. No silent guest-to-member upgrade.
Multi-stage, parallel or sequential, with a real audit trail. Define who approves what and what happens on reject.
Set a response and resolution clock per item, on business hours. See risk before the customer does. Every breach logged.
Project slipped two weeks. Select items, shift by N days, skip weekends, exclude completed. Preview every change before applying.
Mobile-style cards in a single panel. Reply to a comment, mark a task done, dismiss the rest. Tunable by category.
Notion is wonderful at pages. We won't pretend otherwise. If your team uses Notion as a wiki and you want to keep it that way, Gript is happy to live next to it.
We also ship a real notebook environment, hierarchical, with diagrams and live task and board embeds. If you want one less tool over time, we're ready when you are.
Your boards are coming with you.
You pick how.
The coffee is optional.
100% free
Have Gript move me inMoving day is not your job.
Gript Business at $8 per seat compared to Notion Business at approximately $20 per seat with AI bundled.
| Feature | Gript Business | Notion Business |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing terms | ||
| Price per seat per month, annual | $8 | ~$20 |
| AI bundled, mandatory | n/a | Bundled |
| Guests stay free at renewal | ✓ | May be upgraded |
| Project views | ||
| Table, Kanban, Calendar | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gantt with 4 dependency types and lag | ✓ | Finish-to-start only |
| Built-in Dashboard with 20 widget types | ✓ | — |
| Timesheet view | ✓ | — |
| Workload and resource view | ✓ | — |
| Recurring and automations | ||
| Recurring tasks with pattern flexibility | ✓ | Limited |
| Automations fire on recurring tasks | ✓ | Known limitation |
| Automation runs per month | No cap | 100 / database |
| Workspace automation hub | ✓ | — |
| Time, money, capacity | ||
| Native time tracking | ✓ | — |
| Native invoicing, P&L, retainers | ✓ | — |
| SLA tracking with breach alerts | ✓ | — |
| Approval workflows, multi-stage | ✓ | — |
| Collaboration | ||
| Update Requests, public update portal | ✓ | — |
| Public board share, live and themed | ✓ | Read-only page |
| Inbound email to board and to My Work | ✓ | — |
| Notes and docs | ||
| Notebook environment, hierarchical | ✓ | ✓ |
| Diagrams inside notes | ✓ | Embeds only |
| Live task and board embeds in notes | ✓ | Linked DBs |
| Migration | ||
| Import Notion pages as notebooks | ✓ | n/a |
Notion Plus is $12 per seat but strips automations and advanced permissions. Business at ~$20 includes AI as a mandatory bundle. Prices sourced from Notion's pricing page, May 2026.
Annual billing shown. Monthly is $7 and $10. Two-year is $4 and $6.40.
For one person who runs a lot of work.
Start free trialFor teams that bill clients, hit deadlines, and need approvals.
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Import your Notion pages in the trial. Build a board, fire your first automation, send your first invoice. Decide on day 14.
